The agreement for innovation in hospital and home management has been signed. Focus on acute and chronic cardiovascular problems. CEO Valeria Sandei: «The potential of digital systems and AI represents a strategic ally for health. From us a concrete contribution to patients and doctors." The Rector Raffaele Calabrò: «We have entered into this agreement to bring medicine more and more to the territory and simplify the relationship between doctors, patients and data thanks to artificial intelligence»
Rome, June 24 2021 - Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma and Almawave, an Italian company listed on AIM Italia (Ticker: AIW) and a leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI), natural language analytics and big data services, announce the signing of a three-year agreement that includes joint activities to support development and technological innovation in the field of artificial intelligence systems applied to health and in particular to the prevention and monitoring of cardiovascular pathologies.
The project underlying the agreement, through the company's wealth of skills and cutting-edge technologies, combined with the research experience ofUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, the leading university of the National Doctorate in AI PhD-AI.it (Health and Life Science Area) established by Miur and CNR, aims to apply the most innovative AI systems to the many fields of medicine. All with the more general objective of increasing the technical-scientific knowledge of the parties and responding with ever greater force to the challenges of the digital transformation of society.
Almawave e Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, in particular, intend to develop and validate a model that through the most advanced AI technologies supports medical and health care in the management of patients, both acute and chronic, suffering from cardiovascular pathologies. The latter represent today the main cause of death in Italy.
It is therefore essential to research, experiment and then create easily usable tools that act both from a prevention perspective - for example through technologies that provide useful information to doctors in real time for anamnesis and diagnosis - and to facilitate treatment or rehabilitation pathways, in the hospital as well as at home, favoring the autonomy of the patient.
«The collaboration project between Almawave and UCBM was born with the aim of making a concrete contribution to the development of eHealth, combining scientific research, medical-health excellence and high technological competence in an integrated innovation chain, at the service of citizens and the territory» stresses Valeria Sandei, Chief Executive Officer of Almawave, «Digital and Artificial Intelligence systems can be a strategic ally in the field of health protection and promotion and can play a significant role in supporting doctors in various fields, from tools of knowledge to experimental projects, from prevention to diagnostic processes and care".
«We have entered into this agreement with Almawave to bring medicine more and more to the area and simplify the relationship between doctors, patients and data thanks to artificial intelligence - he explained Raffaele Calabrò, Rector ofUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma - For some time theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma has created synergies between healthcare and engineering activities and today, thanks to the opportunities offered by artificial intelligence, it wants to continue. We cannot forget the direct relationship between doctor and patient: technology can improve people's health but the care relationship must remain».
As part of the partnership, research and development programs, exchanges with researchers and students, internships at Almawave as well as multi-level training courses will also be developed and promoted.
Almawave profile
Almawave SpA is a leading Italian company in Artificial Intelligence and in the analysis of written and spoken natural language. Almawave has state-of-the-art proprietary technologies and services applied to realize the potential of AI in the digital evolution of companies and public administrations. It has an international presence with the companies Almawave do Brasil, Almawave USA and PerVoice, has dedicated technology laboratories and over 220 professionals with strong skills in enabling technologies and main frameworks - Big Data, Data Science, Machine Learning, AI Architectures and Integration - as well as a deep understanding of business processes.
Almawave's technological assets, conceived and created as a model of natural experience in the interaction between man and machine, make it possible to interpret text and voice in over 30 languages, interact in a multi-channel key, analyze data and information with a view to knowledge enhancement and automation. The company, part of the Almaviva group, was born as Almaviva Consulting Srl and took on the Almawave name in 2010, the year in which it also launched its own Brazilian subsidiary (Almawave do Brasil). In 2013, he acquired control of the company PerVoice SpA, born as a spin-off of the Bruno Kessler Foundation. In 2017, together with Almaviva and other partners, it won 2 lots of the Consip tender for the public connectivity system. The company can count on over 100 customers and more than 30 users of its platforms.
Profile Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma
The Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma was founded in 1993 with the aim of creating a cultural project that places the value of the person at the centre of biomedical sciences. An integral part of the project is the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital, where the dimension of service to man in the experience of illness is realized on a daily basis. The educational offer consists of twelve degree courses ranging from Medicine and Surgery to health professions, from Food Science and Technology to Biomedical, Industrial, Chemical Engineering for sustainable development and Intelligent Systems. The courses, all strongly connected to the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, together with intense research activity and a broad post-graduate training programme, attract students from Italy and abroad who wish to train in the fields most in demand by the world of work in an international dimension. Interdisciplinary research teams work closely at the Research Centre and intense relationships with the business world allow study and internship experiences, the development of innovative technological solutions and make the technology transfer of numerous projects possible.
